WECI's Office location

The organization office is located at Tanzania Postal Building at Boma road which is near the CLock Tower, Arusha City Council, Arusha Region Tanzania. 

The Wildlife and Environmental Care Initiatives (WECI) 

We are a non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and not for profit making organization.

We shall endeavor to fullfill it's vision, mission and objectives in the best interest of the indegenous people, grassroots community and women living adjacent to National parks and national forests in Tanzania Mainland.

OBJECTIVES

• To promote community awareness on wildlift protaction and environmental conservation as environmental deterioration is contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss and the emergence of new diseases.

• To support needy indegenous people through education and training opportunities and enabling them to access inclusive sustainable economy.

• To facilitate climate change mitigation actions using schools, communities, youth and women groups as train of trainers whilst ensuring effective implementation of the existing Acts and International Conventions that promote inclusiveness and gender equality.

• To raise awareness and improve behaviour on best practices among primary and secondary school students within and around National parks and National Forests and Reserves. Arrange facilitate campaigns, festivals and games event to further raise awareness on biodiversity loss due to REDD+ and speak for the voiceless.

• To promote tree planting, environmental education and training sessions for children, women and youth in the areas of appropriate village teechnologies so as to promote employment opportunities, to reduce greenhouse emissions.

• To combat poverty through eco-friendly IGAs such as bee keeping and cultrual tourism program.

• To facilitate actions contributing towards waste prevention and reduction through good cooperation with CBOS, the commercial, industrial and institutional sectors, working with factories and instituions on product designs. It includes packaging covenants with industires on deduction of packaging quantities and changing the type of packaging materials used (re-usable instead of disposable packaging), deposit-refund systems, such as the ones already used for soft dring bottles.

• To promote networking an collaboration with like-minded organizations, aiming to promote learning from each other, allowing for sharing of experiences, and to exchange ideas and determine way forward toward addressing ecological issues

• To enable women, youth and indigenous communities to actively participate and benefit from wildlife and forests resources in a sustainable way.

WECI way to reach their vision/mission

We are highly committed to conserve biodiversity and living conditions of indegenous people, youth and women through inclusive social services delivery, appropriate village technologies, eco-friendeli IGAs, promoting their participation in community-based actions and have access to self-employment to become self-sufficency.

The organization's mandate will be guided by Carbon Trading Regulations 2022 and UNESCO's World Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program which is closely linked to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2 (That focusses on primary education), MDG 7 (concerning environmental sustainability) and MDG 8 (for global development partnership), but relates and clearly contributes to the achievement of each of the other MDGs. 

ESD is relevant to all environmental, cultural, economic and socio-political contexts and provides a concrete tool for addressing global sustainable challenges through education, taking into account ecosystems challenges and nature.

WECI emphasizes the teaching of the holistic nature of the environment through interdisciplinary and problem-solving approaches. This has to start as early in education as possible.

Our Approach

• Addressing environmental degradation

• Recovery from climate change; biodiversity loss and the emergence of new diseases crises

• Preventing future pandemics

• Increasing restoration and build inclusive and sustainable economy.

• Considering the Constituion of the United Republic of Tanzania (U:R:T:) which recognizes equality for all

• WECI is eager to fully involve women in regular programs that doesn't require extra strength; our new program will deliberatlely involve women at all stages of the project cycle.

• To increase primary and secondary schools', students' knowledge and appreciation of wildlife and general environmental conservation efforts in their areas.

• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC 1989) with principles of non-discrimination, survival and development, best interest of the child, and participations

• Principles and guiding statements that are stipulated in the National policy on disability 2004, Convention on the Rights of the Child1989.

• Carbon Trading Regulations 2022, based on environmental management (control and management of carbon trading int the United Republic of Tanzania.

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